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Opportunity Summary:

The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) opportunity is a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant program focused on the upper atmosphere, organized around a community-driven scientific agenda. At its core, CEDAR supports studies that explain how Earths atmosphere behaves from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere and out into the exosphere. The program is interested in how these regions are connected to one another (coupling), how energy is added, moved, and dissipated (energetics), and how motion and composition evolve over time (dynamics and chemistry). Rather than treating the upper atmosphere as isolated layers, the program emphasizes the idea that these regions form a linked system that must be understood across both regional and global scales.

A central theme of the program is understanding what drives variability in the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space environment. CEDAR highlights two broad categories of drivers: influences coming from below, such as atmospheric waves and other perturbations that propagate upward from the lower atmosphere, and influences coming from above, including solar radiation and particle inputs associated with space weather. By targeting both pathways, the program aims to improve scientific understanding of how disturbances are generated, how they travel through atmospheric layers, and how they ultimately change density, temperature, ionization, and circulation patterns in the coupled thermosphere-ionosphere system and beyond.

The kinds of projects CEDAR supports are explicitly interdisciplinary in method. NSF describes program activities as combining observations, theory, and modeling, which signals an expectation that proposals may involve ground-based or space-based measurements, the development or application of physical theory, and numerical simulations or data-assimilation approaches. In practice, a competitive project under this umbrella would typically be framed around clear physical mechanisms (for example, wave coupling, electrodynamic forcing, or energy deposition) and then use one or more complementary approaches to test hypotheses, quantify budgets, or improve predictive capability. The broad scope also suggests room for proposals that connect multiple regions or processes, such as links between the middle atmosphere and ionosphere, or the impacts of solar inputs on thermospheric dynamics.

Administratively, this opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 14-545; NSF Publication 14-545) is categorized as a discretionary grant in the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity area, under CFDA 47.050 (Geosciences). NSF anticipated around 10 awards with an estimated total funding level of about $1,000,000. Individual awards had an approximate ceiling of $150,000, and there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning it was broadly open to any type of applicant organization, subject to any specific clarifications in the full solicitation text.

In terms of timing, the original closing date was July 17, 2014, with annual deadlines indicated thereafter. The record shows a later current closing date of July 18, 2016, and an archive date of August 17, 2016, which implies that this specific posting is no longer active as written, but it documents the program structure, goals, and typical award parameters for that period. For full details, NSF directed applicants to the official announcement (NSF Publication 14-545) and provided a grants.gov support contact (grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov) for access or submission issues.

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